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Uniquely Human: Understanding Our Cultural Evolution
Several theories point to human’s unique capacity to teach and learn from others as an evolutionary turning point in human history.
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Working Around the Distance
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a new set of practices has begun to take shape in how psychological scientists teach and conduct research. A global survey of the field reveals the scope of the impact, along with strategies being used to overcome the considerable challenges associated with moving research and learning from in-person laboratory settings and classrooms to online platforms.
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Teaching: Benefits of Education / Rewards of Regret
Education Matters: Making the Mind’s Muscles by David G. Myers. Reaping the Rewards of Regret by C. Nathan DeWall.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on training learning strategies, experience vividness and forms of consciousness, boredom and self-control, driverless vehicles and dilemmas, and the effects of childhood adversity.
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Gordon Bower, Inventive Memory Researcher, Is Dead at 87
APS Past President Gordon H. Bower (1932-2020) Gordon H. Bower, a research psychologist who spent more than half a century studying how the brain learns and remembers, as well as a host of related subjects
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The Learning Opportunities Hiding in Our Failures
Successes enjoy more attention than failures. We celebrate stories of triumph, and pore over them to extract the reasons why things went so well. Industries package the lessons and share them as tips for ‘best